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" When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. "

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" The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce. "

" The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes. "

" When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself. "

" To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. "

" Education is for growth and fulfillment. "

" In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. "

" The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape. "

" I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things. "

" The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas. "

" If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. "

" I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. "

" Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. "

" If little else, the brain is an educational toy. "

" One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires. "

" Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. "

" When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle. "

" At the typewriter you find out who you are. "

" People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. "

" The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism. "

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" A writer needs a life of introspection. "

" I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.' "

" The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.' "

" Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. "

" Most novelists write about twisted lives. "

" Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. "

" What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. "

" I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends. "

" I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know. "

" A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans. "

" Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom. "